Les Jeux sont Fait. The bets have been placed.
Damn, this is a boozy opening and a loud one too. Rum, lots of it, reminding me of my mother dousing the Christmas fruit cake with rum, starting in September, so that when it is taken out of its container come December, the smell of rum soaked fruit fills the room. The cumin battles with the rum in the opening, but the tussle doesn't last long and they agree to a truce, living in relative accord with a dry, semi sweet, woody base (patchouli, dried fruit and tobacco present and accounted for).
Dark, luscious amber all tanked up. I smell incense in the base but it's not listed in the notes. Les Jeux sont Faits reminds me of a mix between Serge Lutens' Arabie, Chergui and Ambre Sultan, but not as honeyed, darker...more brooding. Feels more masculine initially but becomes sweeter and warmer with time, a woman could carry this off, a woman like Marlene Dietrich with her smoky, hypnotic voice.
Trivia: I stumbled upon a book by the same name, Les Jeux sont Faits, It was originally a screenplay, written by Jean-Paul Satre(part of the philosophical movement interested in existentialism) in 1943, in which two people, Ève and Pierre who have never met before, are destined soulmates, both dying in premature and violent deaths before meeting in the afterlife. They are given a second shot at life for 24 hours to prove their love, in order to keep that second chance. However both are distracted by unfinished business in their previous lives and that keeps them from concentrating on their love and they fail in their quest, dying once more. The story backs Satre's belief in determinism, i.e the philosophical position that for every event and action, there exists conditions that could result in no other eventuality, whether good or bad intentions abound, that destiny will always win over the power of life. In this play, Satre also shows that it is near impossible to know if a choice is the right one even if backed by the best intentions and that there really isn't an absolute truth or morality.
*An English translation is available to read on openlibrary.org (not affiliated, just read it there!)
“Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’- Khalil Gibran.
Trivia: I stumbled upon a book by the same name, Les Jeux sont Faits, It was originally a screenplay, written by Jean-Paul Satre(part of the philosophical movement interested in existentialism) in 1943, in which two people, Ève and Pierre who have never met before, are destined soulmates, both dying in premature and violent deaths before meeting in the afterlife. They are given a second shot at life for 24 hours to prove their love, in order to keep that second chance. However both are distracted by unfinished business in their previous lives and that keeps them from concentrating on their love and they fail in their quest, dying once more. The story backs Satre's belief in determinism, i.e the philosophical position that for every event and action, there exists conditions that could result in no other eventuality, whether good or bad intentions abound, that destiny will always win over the power of life. In this play, Satre also shows that it is near impossible to know if a choice is the right one even if backed by the best intentions and that there really isn't an absolute truth or morality.
*An English translation is available to read on openlibrary.org (not affiliated, just read it there!)
“Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’- Khalil Gibran.
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